עַם

ampeople
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine1,868 occurrences39 books1,655 verses
This word comes from the names of Amaw and People's Gate.

Definition

from H6004; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
Traditional renderings: folk, men, nation, people.

Glossary entries

Amaw

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

1,868 total
  1. Leviticus 26:12לְעָֽם׃ · people
    I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
  2. Numbers 5:21עַמֵּ֑ךְ · your people
    …and the priest shall have the woman swear under the oath of the curse—‘then may the LORD make you an attested curse among your people by making your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.
  3. Numbers 5:27עַמָּֽהּ׃ · her people
    When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.
  4. Numbers 9:13מֵֽעַמֶּ֑יהָ · from his people
    But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
  5. Numbers 11:1הָעָם֙ · the people
    Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
  6. Numbers 11:2הָעָ֖ם · And the people
    And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.
  7. Numbers 11:8הָעָ֨ם · The people
    The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
  8. Numbers 11:10הָעָ֗ם · the people
    Then Moses heard the people of family after family weeping at the entrances to their tents, and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was also displeased.
  9. Numbers 11:11הָעָ֥ם · people
    So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?
  10. Numbers 11:12הָעָ֣ם · people
    Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?
  11. Numbers 11:13הָעָ֣ם · people
    Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
  12. Numbers 11:14הָעָ֣ם · people
    I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.
  13. Numbers 11:16הָעָ֖ם · of the people
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.
  14. Numbers 11:17הָעָ֔ם · of the people
    And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.
  15. Numbers 11:18הָעָ֨ם · to the people
    And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.
  16. Numbers 11:21הָעָ֕ם · men
    But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’
  17. Numbers 11:24 (2×)הָעָ֔ם · the people; הָעָ֔ם · of the people
    So Moses went out and relayed to the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.
  18. Numbers 11:29עַ֤ם · people
    But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”
  19. Numbers 11:32הָעָ֡ם · the people
    All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.
  20. Numbers 11:33 (2×)בָעָ֔ם · against the people; בָּעָ֔ם · them
    But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.
  21. Numbers 11:34הָעָ֖ם · the people
    So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.
  22. Numbers 11:35הָעָ֖ם · the people
    From Kibroth-hattaavah the people moved on to Hazeroth, where they remained for some time.
  23. Numbers 12:15וְהָעָם֙ · and the people
    So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought in again.
  24. Numbers 12:16הָעָ֖ם · the people
    After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.
  25. Numbers 13:18הָעָם֙ · whether its people
    See what the land is like and whether its people are strong or weak, few or many.
  26. Numbers 13:28הָעָ֔ם · the people
    Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
  27. Numbers 13:30הָעָ֖ם · the people
    Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!”
  28. Numbers 13:31הָעָ֑ם · the people
    But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”
  29. Numbers 13:32הָעָ֛ם · the people
    So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.
  30. Numbers 14:1הָעָ֖ם · the people
    Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
  31. Numbers 14:9עַ֣ם · of the people
    Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”
  32. Numbers 14:11הָעָ֣ם · people
    And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
  33. Numbers 14:13הָעָ֥ם · people
    But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.
  34. Numbers 14:14הָעָ֣ם · people
    And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
  35. Numbers 14:15הָעָ֥ם · people
    If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
  36. Numbers 14:16הָעָ֣ם · people
    ‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
  37. Numbers 14:19 (2×)הָעָ֥ם · people; לָעָ֣ם · [them]
    Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”
  38. Numbers 14:39הָעָ֖ם · the people
    And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.
  39. Numbers 15:26הָעָ֖ם · the people
    Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.
  40. Numbers 15:30עַמָּֽהּ׃ · his people
    But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.
  41. Numbers 16:41עַ֥ם · people
    The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”
  42. Numbers 16:47 (2×)בָּעָ֑ם · among the people; הָעָֽם׃ · the people
    So Aaron took the censer as Moses had ordered and ran into the midst of the assembly. And seeing that the plague had begun among the people, he offered the incense and made atonement for the people.
  43. Numbers 20:1הָעָ֖ם · [and]
    In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
  44. Numbers 20:3הָעָ֖ם · The people
    The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
  45. Numbers 20:20בְּעַ֥ם · army
    But Edom insisted, “You may not pass through.” And they came out to confront the Israelites with a large army and a strong hand.
  46. Numbers 20:24עַמָּ֔יו · his people
    “Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.